>>PS I say idiotic because *if* they exist they are an idiotic waste of money - since I'd be stunned if there weren't better techniques to accomplish something with a stock price.
It is very likely those "better techniques" are already in use. Complaints to regulators, "news" plants, etc, are all used by complicit shorts.
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